Words that rhyme with olympic
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ballistic
adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity; "ballistic missile" -
civic
adj 1: of or relating or belonging to a city; "civic center"; "civic problems" 2: of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals; "civil rights"; "civil liberty"; "civic duties"; "civic pride" [syn: civil, civic] -
clinic
n 1: a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists 2: meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity 3: a healthcare facility for outpatient care -
cryptic
adj 1: of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying] 2: having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther [syn: cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, sibylline] 3: having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note" -
cynic
n 1: someone who is critical of the motives of others [syn: cynic, faultfinder] 2: a member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who advocated the doctrine that virtue is the only good and that the essence of virtue is self-control -
epic
adj 1: very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture" [syn: epic, heroic, larger-than-life] 2: constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; "epic tradition" [syn: epic, epical] n 1: a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds [syn: epic poem, heroic poem, epic, epos] -
epidemic
adj 1: (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; "an epidemic outbreak of influenza" [ant: ecdemic, endemic, endemical] n 1: a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time -
gimmick
n 1: a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident; "it sounds good but what's the catch?" [syn: catch, gimmick] 2: something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known; "she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket"; "there may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use" [syn: doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gizmo, gismo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingmabob, thingamajig, thingumajig, thingmajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget] 3: any clever maneuver; "he would stoop to any device to win a point"; "it was a great sales gimmick"; "a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen" [syn: device, gimmick, twist] -
horrific
adj 1: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry" [syn: hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous] 2: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible] -
limping
n 1: disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet [syn: lameness, limping, gimp, gimpiness, gameness, claudication] -
lyric
adj 1: expressing deep emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance" [syn: lyric, lyrical] 2: used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; "a lyric soprano" [ant: dramatic] 3: relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage" 4: of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry" n 1: the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language" [syn: lyric, words, language] 2: a short poem of songlike quality [syn: lyric, lyric poem] v 1: write lyrics for (a song) -
mimic
adj 1: constituting an imitation; "the mimic warfare of the opera stage"- Archibald Alison n 1: someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) [syn: mimic, mimicker] v 1: imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect; "The actor mimicked the President very accurately" [syn: mimic, mime] -
mystic
adj 1: having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients" [syn: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic] 2: relating to or resembling mysticism; "mystical intuition"; "mystical theories about the securities market" [syn: mystic, mystical] 3: relating to or characteristic of mysticism; "mystical religion" [syn: mystic, mystical] n 1: someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension [syn: mystic, religious mystic] -
optimistic
adj 1: expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds; "in an optimistic mood"; "optimistic plans"; "took an optimistic view" [ant: pessimistic] 2: expecting the best; "an affirmative outlook" [syn: affirmative, optimistic] -
picnic
n 1: a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering [syn: field day, outing, picnic] 2: any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" [syn: cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake] 3: any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion v 1: eat alfresco, in the open air; "We picnicked near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday" -
pinprick
n 1: a minor annoyance 2: small puncture (as if made by a pin) -
prolific
adj 1: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific] 2: bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" [syn: prolific, fertile] -
simple
adj 1: having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance" [ant: complex] 2: easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem" [syn: elementary, simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic] 3: apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" [syn: bare(a), mere(a), simple(a)] 4: exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed wonder" [syn: childlike, wide-eyed, round-eyed, dewy- eyed, simple] 5: lacking mental capacity and subtlety [syn: dim-witted, simple, simple-minded] 6: (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions [syn: simple, unsubdivided] [ant: compound] 7: unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity" n 1: any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties 2: a person lacking intelligence or common sense [syn: simpleton, simple] -
specific
adj 1: (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique; "rules with specific application"; "demands specific to the job"; "a specific and detailed account of the accident" [ant: general, nonspecific] 2: stated explicitly or in detail; "needed a specific amount" 3: relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species; "specific characters" 4: being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides; "quinine is highly specific for malaria"; "a specific remedy"; "a specific stain is one having a specific affinity for particular structural elements" [ant: nonspecific] n 1: a fact about some part (as opposed to general); "he always reasons from the particular to the general" [syn: particular, specific] [ant: general] 2: a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease; "quinine is a specific for malaria" -
statistic
n 1: a datum that can be represented numerically -
terrific
adj 1: very great or intense; "a terrific noise"; "a terrific thunderstorm storm"; "fought a terrific battle" 2: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous] 3: causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail" [syn: terrific, terrifying] -
indic
n 1: a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages [syn: Indic, Indo-Aryan] -
olympus
n 1: a mountain peak in northeast Greece near the Aegean coast; believed by ancient Greeks to be the dwelling place of the gods (9,570 feet high) [syn: Olympus, Mount Olympus, Mt. Olympus, Olimbos] -
olympia
n 1: capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound [syn: Olympia, capital of Washington] 2: a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games -
paralympic
See also olympic definition and olympic synonyms
